Monday, March 21, 2016

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News and articles from around the web

If you're a student and would like to get paid to work on an LLVM-related
project over the summer then do consider applying for Google Summer of Code
with
LLVM.
More details about Summer of Code are available
here. The deadline for
applications is this Friday, March 25th at 1900 GMT. I'd also encourage you to
look at lowRISC's project
ideas if you have an interest
in open source hardware.

I normally prefer to link to mailing list threads where there has already
been some discussion or attempts at answers, but I think this one is worth
some more eyeballs. Jia Chen is interested in the tradeoffs in LLVM using
more sophisticated pointer
analyses.
There are no responses at the time of writing, but it seems an interesting
question.

Other project commits

The documentation on the LLD linker has added a few numbers to give an idea
of the sort of inputs it needs to handle. e.g. Chrome with debug info contains
roughly 13M relocations, 6.3M symbols, 1.8M sections and 17k files.
r263466.